FYI, new GRsecurity 1.9.9d solves this problem. -- Ivan Gustin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eduard Avetisyan" To: "Hubertus A. Haniel" ; Sent: srijeda, 19. ožujak 2003. 17:05 Subject: Re: [suse-security] Ptrace hole in linux kernels

Hi!

I was wondering on the same thing, and there's already another posting before your's. I'm afraid SuSE guys are all busy in CeBIT :)

Shouldn't expect an answer before tomorrow noon or weekend? :)

Eduard

--- "Hubertus A. Haniel" wrote:

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Are the SuSE distributions also affected by this?

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From: Immo 'FaUl' Wehrenberg To: vulnwatch@vulnwatch.org Subject: [VulnWatch] Fwd: Ptrace hole / Linux 2.2.25 Date: 17 Mar 2003 17:30:40 +0100

From: Alan Cox Subject: Ptrace hole / Linux 2.2.25 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] Newsgroups: linux-kernel

Vulnerability: CAN-2003-0127

The Linux 2.2 and Linux 2.4 kernels have a flaw in ptrace. This hole allows local users to obtain full privileges. Remote exploitation of this hole is not possible. Linux 2.5 is not believed to be vulnerable.

Linux 2.2.25 has been released to correct Linux 2.2. It contains no other changes. The bug fixes that would have been in 2.2.5pre1 will now appear in 2.2.26pre1. The patch will apply directly to most older 2.2 releases.